Shutter-worker.



No. 732,615. PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903. N. 0. BOND.

SHUTTER WORKER.

APPLICATION FILED Ill. 20, 1903.

I0 MODEL.

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No. 732,615. r l

I STATEs Patented June' 30, 1903.

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SHUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 7 Letters Patent No. 732,615, dated June 30, 1903. Application filed March 20, 1903. Serial No; 148,654; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NATHAN O. BOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hyannis, in the county of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Shutter-Workers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to what are known in the art as shutter-workers "that is, mechanism by means of which shutters hung on the outside of the house may be opened or closed, or partially so, from within the house without raising the window.

The invention has reference more particularly to the type of mechanism embodying a driven gear operatively connected withthe shutter and a driving-gear in operative con:v

nection with the driven gear and adapted to be actuated manually by suitable means exposed within the room, the driving and driven gear being mounted on the outside of the house-framing adjacent to the shutter.

The aim of this invention is to provide for the use of mechanism of this character in connection with shutters which are so hung that when opened to their full extent they will lie flatly and closely against the adjacent framing; and the invention consists in providing the shutter with a recess in its outer face, (when in closed position,) which recess is so disposed with respect to the operating gearing on the house-framing that when the shutter is fully opened this gearing will extend in the recess and allow the shutter to lie flatly against the house.

The invention consists also in thedetails .of construction and combination of parts 'shutter within this recess.

opened wide, as in Fig. 2, it will lie flatly and closely against said framing.

4 represents a shutter-operating mechanism situated on the outside of the houseframing adjacent to the shutter and comprising in this instance a horizontal worm 5, Fig. 3, mounted in bearings in a casing 6, fixed to the framing of the house, which worm is adapted to be manually operated by a shaft 7, connected therewith and extended horizontally through the house-framing to the inside of the room, where it is provided with a handle or crank 8 or equivalent device for turning it. Mounted in bearings in the casing adjacent to the worm and engaged thereby is a vertical worm-wheel 9, having connected with it an axial stud 10, to which is fixed the inner end of an operating-arm 11,whose'outer end is operatively connected with the shutter, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

From this description it will be seen that when the operating-shaft 7 is rotated from within the room in-the proper direction the Worm will be rotated with it, which will in turn revolve the worm-wheel, and through the connection of the wheel with the operatingarm the latter will be swung outward and will open the shutter, whichrmay be turned clear back to the position shown in Fig. 2. The

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shutter is closed by a reverse motion of the operating-shaft, and it may be held in any intermediate position and there locked by reason of the character of the intermeshing gear.

In order that when the shutter is opened to its full extent, as shownv in Fig.2, the operating-gearing will not offer an obstruction to the same, I provide the shutter with a recess or socket 12 in such relation to said gearing that the latter will enter the socket and allow the shutter to lie flatly and closely against the framing when it is opened, and I connect the outer end of the operating arm 11 to the The recess extends from the inner edge of theshutter some distance and has seatedand'firmlysecured therein a rectangular casing 13 of the form represented in Fig. 4, comprising two side walls 14, an end connecting-wall 15, and lateral flanges 16, extending from the outer edges of said Walls and adapted when the casing is seated in the recess to lie flatly against the face of the shutter, to which the casing is firmly secured by means of screws or analogous fastening devices extending through holes 17 in the flanges. The connection of the operating-arm 11 with the casing is effected through the medium of a cross-plate 18, extending between the side walls of the casing and formed with an opening 19, in which the end of the arm loosely extends. The casing 13, connected with the shutter as described, serves to brace and strengthen the same where the strain is applied in the operation of the mechanism to open and close the shutter, and by reason of the recess in the shutter, disposed as described, the shutter may be opened to its full extent and when in this position will lie flatly and closely against the framing of the house, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be understood that the specific gearing for operating the shutter described herein and illustrated in the drawings may be replaced by other mechanisms, inasmuch as in itself it constitutes no part of the present invention, the essence of which resides in providing the shutter with a recess in such relation to adjacent operating-gearing that when the shutter is opened the gearing will extend in the recess and will not offer obstruction to the shutter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In combination with a shutter provided in its outer face with a recess and adapted when open to lie flatly against the adjoining 3 5 framing, operative mechanism applied to said framing in position to enter the recess in the shutter when the latter is in an open position, and a connection between said mechanism and the shutter.

2. In combination with a shutter provided in its face with a recess and adapted when open to lie flatly against the adjoining houseframing, a casing situated in said recess and provided with a cross-plate having an opening therethrough, a driving and driven gear on the adjacent framing in position to enter the recess in the shutter when the latter is opened, an operating-arm having one end connected with the driven gear and its opposite end extended through the opening in the cross-plate, and an operating-shaft connected with the driving-gear and extended to the inside of the house and exposed within the room.

3. In combination with a shutter provided in its face with a recess and adapted when open to lie flatly against the adjoining framing, a casing seated in the recess and having lateral flanges bearing against the face of the shutter, fastening devices extending through said flanges and into the shutter, operative mechanism fixed to the framing in position to extend into said casing in the recess, and connections between said operative mechanism and the casing on the shutter.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NATHAN O. BOND.

Witnesses:

MARY A. WILsoN, W. R. KENNEDY. 

